Abstract:Since Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), discussions about and research on the dichotomy between court-appointed and privately-retained attorneys have been pervasive, most frequently casting court-appointed attorneys in a negative light (e.g., work for the “state,” overworked and under-resourced) relative to their privately-retained counterparts (e.g., work for the “client,” autonomous and self-sufficient). In our survey, we re-visit these perceptions and include an exploratory experimental test in which we varied a… Show more
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